Daif Sala

Daif Sala (12 August 1975-30 September 2013) was a leader of the Tunisian Combat Group.

Biography
Daif Sala was born on 12 August 1975 in al-Qayrawan (Kairouan), Tunisia to a family of Sunni Muslims. Sala was a vocal opponent of secularism at his local mosque, and Sala traveled to Afghanistan in 1993 during the Afghan Civil War, where he was trained by al-Qaeda in various terrorist tactics. Sala joined the Tunisian Combat Group back home and took part in attacks against westerners and the government in his homeland, and he was held responsible for a suicide bombing by Tawfiq Rehman that killed 3 tourists in 2012. In response, the Tunisian government cracked down on terrorism, and Sala was killed in a police raid in Tunis on 30 September 2013.